Above: a bumble bee doing its beneficial work atop a coneflower; Photo: Purdue University. After a painful childhood bee sting, we all seem to be pre-programmed to be startled when a bee or wasp flies ...

If you’ve been out among blooming flowers lately, especially in the more outlying areas, you have probably seen the familiar ...

Invasive, aggressive, and destructive, the yellow-legged Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) is on the rise in the UK. Here's what ...

The yellow jacket is a bee-sized, black insect with distinct yellow markings on the head and yellow bands around the abdomen. The face is mostly yellow with dark eyes.

Eastern Carpenter Bees are large yellow and black bees often mistaken for bumble bees. The easiest way to tell the difference is to look at the back end of the bee, the abdomen.

Yellow-faced bees don’t sting, which often leads to the death of a bee. “If a honeybee worker dies, the hive continues,” explains Graham.

WILMINGTON ISLAND, Ga. (WTOC) - Employees of the Savannah Bee Company say they first saw these different-looking hornets in their bee garden about a week ago. After seeing the Georgia Department of ...

The honey bee killer the yellow-legged hornet (Vespa velutina) has now been found a second time in South Carolina. The hornet was caught in a baited trap on March 14 in Jasper County, about three ...

The yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina, is a close cousin of the northern giant hornet, or "murder hornet." Both of them are very adept in the wholesale destruction of honey bees.